• BorgDrone@lemmy.one
    11·
    6 months ago

    The same purpose as a PNG or JPEG?

    You know that GIF is not specifically a format for animations, right? It’s just a lossless image format.

    • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
      41·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, but it’s almost always used for animations. Seeing one that’s not animated just feels… weird.

      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
        3·
        6 months ago

        Now, that’s just a recent development. 20 years ago it was a common format for images on the interwebs.